Show I l SOCIETYS SHAjl flow Wedding Giftse Sold and JlesoM SECRETS OF A QEKTALX OLAS Society Young 3Iai Duplicate Trot enU silver and llateL liolluw MocJierj Kr porter Kac et Step beck to the lower counter and I will show you a pretty wedding present said a prominent SanJFran cisco jeweler to a CUM reporter a few days ago The reporter baring complied with I the request an alligatorskin case I about two feet square by eight inch deep was drawn by the jeweler from a I plash bag that was tied with a iU cord the plush bag in itself forming a pretty bit of a picture as it lay on the glass showcase it being made of three shade of blushblue pray and old gold with a vin of ivy and a spray of daisies and a bunch of mossrose painted and worked with silver aiJ gold thread Thata quite pretty remarbol tbt reporter referring to the plush bag Ob yes thats a novel y The I bag without the contents is vore Fir hut feast your eyes on this fbe jeweler unlocked the case wi bn tin gold keyand upon opening it revealei i brilliant conglomeration of StJll ikle uua color The inside lining was wade up of alternate strips of plush and tatin of gray and gold with a silver and gad twisted wire corniceor zeo a was divided offinto compartment auu contained the following amoc other I articles Onehalf dozen each u LC I forks and spoons sugar toug two pickle forks and a pickle kuili fvo I butter knives a mustard spoon a tics knife t and a honey poon Each piece was finely chased and at the end of the handle very delicate filagree work made a ball cnprxJ by a helmet with visor drawn and upon the visor was engraved the iniuat ut the happy bride All of the spoon were lined with gold in the bowls wnle the knives bad a barberpole streaks golJ running around the handles Well what do you think of iU asked the jeweler Its simply gorgeous Whats it worth 7 Eight hundred dollars even It is a wedding present ordered by a club here as a memento of club days for the expected ex-pected bride has put a veto on the club business Its a handy thing to have about the house In case a man gets hard up he can put it up as collateral Its not necessary to do that we will buy it back and pay more than a pawnbroker would tut do you ever do that 7 Why certainly Come in my backroom back-room and I will show you a box ol goods that I bought back only a few days ago II Adjourning to the back room an old trunk was pulled out from beneath a counter and opened I This aid the jeweler taking out a I bundle done up in green baize is a i unit dish It is solid silver W r sold i it a year ago to a Fillmorestreet mtn i for 200 We bought it back for old silver for 45 Wnat will yon do with iU I is in fine condition as you can see We will simply cut tots name out that you see on the side and work in some design burnish it up and sell it again For IOO For all we can get A business man is not working for his health you know Now in this trunk are J30OJ worth of present we bought from the same man Some of them are duplicates and therefore there-fore useless And what do you mean by duplicates dupli-cates 7 I mean that unknowingly frien shave s-have bought the same article for their contribution A man has no use for six cake dishes orslx casters any more than he has use for a thousand shirts The man that we bought this lot of told me and it was very amusing too that their presents were unpacked on their return from their wedding tour that they found eight pickle forks four dozen salt boxes tour casters and a peck of spoons knives and forks besides duplicates dupli-cates of nearly every other piece He heM a family council of two and concluded con-cluded to sell them I bought them and the money be realized paid for his wedding expenses There is a great difference between the wedding of today and those of fifty years ago Possibly 300 all told would cover the costs of the presents of a couple moving in the middle classes fifty years ago A man moving in society here that is where he has an extended acquaintance acquaint-ance will probably receive from f 1000 to 10000 worth of presents according to his popularity or the popularity of the bride About six months ago we packed up one of the most gorgeous boxes of jewelry brie abrae and plate that we have been fortunate enough to sell Our list price was exactly 999 Who received that consignment I It went to Oregon A young man sold his mine and got married Thence The-nce are we Rill get an opportunity I to buy it back What do you sell the most oft Oh silver and plate You know they are standard articles We sell more tea service than anything else I wish people would get out of that notion no-tion too Now we will take a young couple and they go to housekeeping in a flat Its not a safe place for a cartload cart-load of silverware The consequence is that they select what they need for immediate use and pay some safe deposit de-posit company storage until they tire of doing that then come around and sell it to us or to other firm Going to a vault built Into the wall the jeweler brought out an icecr m set The central dish was in the shape of a conch shell with Neptune leaning on his trident for a handle while the smaller dishes were shaped dike scallop shells with mermaid pecpng over he rim for a handle The spoon were shell shaped the bandies being fist grasping the bowl in their mouth The were all inlaid with gold This ice cream set was own vl bv a wealtl gentleman residing ii Eerke ley He paid H5 for it We offered him 155 and he accepted it His reason for selling was that nis wife was tire of it and wanted something new taredofehvery pretty thing to Ke < tied 01 eh 1 Obi I dont know Its hard to pleas a woiuan sometimes especially a rich one I bad one customer a while ago a California Street lady who insisted on buying a certain unique silver teakettle tea-kettle had already sold it but she grew so persistent that she nearly raised a tempest in a teakettle about it and finally 1 had to duplicate that kettle ket-tle at Ii loss of 125 to myself and the joke of the thing was that both kettles went to the same wedding and von will see one of them in otfr front window now It was only three days coming back too I boueht it back and got even on that 25 Who are yonr best customers for wedding gifts 7 I Jewish people they buy more and costher presents than any other class uf people They are hard to please but when they like anything they take it and pay for it Theyare always buy Ing presents Wedilings birlbdas and holidays bring out their plethoric pocketbook raose who brag their presents to us ti dispose of them are generally you y men about town clerks in good p s t m who before they married d under the Illusion that i i as cheap to keep two jle l as one but a month ors or-s a t cus off so many cigars a little Mi < triee until Rjey bring their gifts tiii The money we pay them keeps tie ball rolling until the glamor of m irt red Ie wears off and they realize that they have a home and that it is pleas anfr tJHt there and smoke a pipe than to gad about the streets with two bit utters in their mouths A bis instant a clerk popped his Loud h if to request a moments con versa on with the jeweler and the reporter re-porter withdrew San Francisco Cal |